For someone who owns a beauty blog, I have low self-esteem. There. I said it. Although you might have gleaned that from my posts here and at my other blogs, I still have a hard time admitting to (and correcting) the level of my confidence. And beauty magazines do not, in any way, alleviate my struggle with it. Although of course, I still scan those magazine pages from time to time. I try not to linger too much in between the pages because I know that seeing all those perfect print ad models in their perfect get-ups, perfect skin, perfect make-up and perfect everything would make me look at myself and think I can never look like that. Not in a million years.

If the advertisements wanted me to feel challenged enough to do something about my physical self, the tactic is not working at all. I read in an online article that many women feel the same, that beauty product ads tend to lower consumers’ self esteem. Although as opposed to those women, I do not make the beauty industry a lot richer by doing what the ads dictate us to do, which is to buy their products. Of course, I totally know that splurging on things to make myself beautiful once in a while is acceptable, which I do, but rarely. It still boils down to the fact that I don’t think any amount of beauty products can make me feel better about myself and increase the level of my self-confidence.

And you thought you had issues, eh? LOL.